“Lanlan’s most distinctive, seductive quality was her ability to make you forget every question. Her presence was so exhilarating – sound, smell, taste, disturbance of air of her – that she erased the need for history. She erased even the need for the present. Her beauty was a promise, and so when you were with her it was the future that lit up, materializing endless possibilities and roads, like the network of neurons and synapses in some god’s brain.”
